{"id":"DUT-MN-002","kind":"duty","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Minnesota","state":"MN","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Minnesota Legislature (Laws 2002, ch. 402, the Minnesota Emergency Health Powers Act, as amended; administered by the Commissioner of Health)","authority":"Minn. Stat. §§ 144.419-144.4196","instrument":"Minn. Stat. § 144.419 (2020)","title":"Isolation and Quarantine of Persons","dateIssued":"","effective":"standing","end":"standing","startDate":"","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["DUTY","QUAR","TRAV"],"addressees":["persons generally (infected and exposed individuals and groups); owners or persons in control of premises used for confinement"],"clause":"Isolation and quarantine must be by the least restrictive means necessary to prevent the spread of a communicable or potentially communicable disease to others and may include, but are not limited to, confinement to private homes or other private or public premises.","enforcement":"Enforcement under § 144.4195 subd. 1(d) (read, not saved): \u0027Any peace officer... may apprehend, hold, transport, quarantine, or isolate a person subject to the order\u0027; group orders may be posted at the premises (subd. 1(c)); Minn. Stat. § 12.39 subd. 1 (read in DUT-MN-006) allows the commissioner to order a person who refuses testing or treatment \u0027to be placed in isolation or quarantine according to parameters set forth in sections 144.419 and 144.4195\u0027.","functions":[],"notes":"It authorizes the Commissioner of Health to isolate infected persons and quarantine exposed persons and groups, restricting \u0027activities or travel of an otherwise healthy person who likely has been exposed\u0027, with confinement to private or public premises; \u0027communicable disease\u0027 expressly includes \u0027severe acute respiratory syndromes\u0027, \u0027influenza that can cause a pandemic\u0027 and \u0027a new or novel or previously controlled or eradicated infectious agent\u0027.","sourceUrl":"https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2020/cite/144.419/pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":283069,"grade":"primary","character":"statutory_duty","description":"","collection":"DUT-MN","url":"/library/DUT-MN-002","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/DUT-MN-002","citation":"Minnesota Legislature (Laws 2002, ch. 402, the Minnesota Emergency Health Powers Act, as amended; administered by the Commissioner of Health), Minn. Stat. § 144.419 (2020) (standing) (Ex. DUT-MN-002)","stateName":"Minnesota","related":["DUT-MN-006"]}